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"Missional" - quote of the day

Just came across an interview with Brian McLaren on Next-Wave. It includes the following on defining "missional":

Next-Wave: Describe what it means to be missional.McLaren:
The term missional asks this question: what is the purpose of the
church? To enfold and warehouse Christians for heaven, protecting them
from damage and spoilage until they reach their destination? Or to
recruit and train people to be transforming agents of the kingdom of
God in our culture? The missional church understands itself to be
blessed not to the exclusion of the world, but for the benefit of the
world. It is a church that seeks to bring benefits to its nonadherents
through its adherents.

I like the caricature of the churches that "enfold and warehouse Christians for heaven, protecting them
from damage and spoilage until they reach their destination".

"warehousing Christians for heaven" - conjures an image of an upmarket storage hire place on the edge of the city where Christians are preserved in a climate controlled atmosphere, almost dust free ... until the rapture.

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"Missional" - quote of the day

Just came across an interview with Brian McLaren on Next-Wave. It includes the following on defining "missional":

Next-Wave: Describe what it means to be missional.McLaren:
The term missional asks this question: what is the purpose of the
church? To enfold and warehouse Christians for heaven, protecting them
from damage and spoilage until they reach their destination? Or to
recruit and train people to be transforming agents of the kingdom of
God in our culture? The missional church understands itself to be
blessed not to the exclusion of the world, but for the benefit of the
world. It is a church that seeks to bring benefits to its nonadherents
through its adherents.

I like the caricature of the churches that "enfold and warehouse Christians for heaven, protecting them
from damage and spoilage until they reach their destination".

"warehousing Christians for heaven" - conjures an image of an upmarket storage hire place on the edge of the city where Christians are preserved in a climate controlled atmosphere, almost dust free ... until the rapture.